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I have a bird box camera with a cable. The problem you will have is power. A cable supplied camera is tiny about half the size of a matchbox.
To get enough power the battery will make the camera quite large. I’m sure they exist but I’d imagine they are expensive and don’t have a great battery life, days rather than weeks, this would mean disturbing the nest to change the battery which would scare the birds off.
My camera came with a 20m power lead which is very thin 5v cable, maybe 2/3mm in diameter. The camera is wireless with a little receiver at the tv end.
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Many thanks Joejo do you watch on your tv or your phone ? May I ask how much you paid and how high you have the box from the ground ? My box would be for blue tits have many in the garden and installation no problem can hide cables behind tall bushes my tv would be just 6 feet away
You can connect the camera to an external large capacity battery pack, this will give a much greater running time, there are battery banks for charging phones and laptops with very high capacities that are about £20-£45, these are two on Amazon as an example
27000mAh https://tinyurl.com/mwjre5jr
50000mAh https://tinyurl.com/5ehfrryr
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Many thanks Joejo do you watch on your tv or your phone ? May I ask how much you paid and how high you have the box from the ground ? My box would be for blue tits have many in the garden and installation no problem can hide cables behind tall bushes my tv would be just 6 feet away
Mike, the camera is on a wall near the conservatory. I watch it on a tv in the back room, it connects via single yellow RCA phono video cable. It’s about 6 feet high and has been in place 3 years without any occupants. I’ve recently put hanging baskets around it. The camera was a present but I think it was around £30.
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If your bird box is on a garage wall for example and the garage had mains sockets inside, then a small wide angle spy camera with a dc power supply and wifi video signal is all thats needed.
Prob similar to what @Jojoe has.
The receiver unit on mine is exactly the same as the one Kezo posted a link to. The camera is also very similar. Only difference is the solar panel. Even bird houses are becoming sustainable!
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